 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced...  The Andover Review - Sida 1051891Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1885 - 466 sidor
...tells us to conceive of poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and more mankind will discover that we have to...turn to poetry to interpret life for us. to console and sustain us. Scic-nce will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1886 - 394 sidor
...poetry more worthily than it has hitherto been the custom to conceive it. " More and more," he says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well does Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1899 - 796 sidor
...explanation of criticism and to the further elucidation of the thought which is contained in the phrases " We turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us ; " but he reflects that he would be a rash critic who should try to judge any piece of music in that... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 sidor
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and i THE STUDY OF POETRY 3 most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 sidor
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. 4146 Matthew Arnold : Ward's English... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 sidor
...destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind ivill discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes uiih us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 sidor
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, anil most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. 4146 Matthew... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 sidor
...those which in gene-al men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that \ve have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 sidor
...countenance of all science." We are assured by Matthew Arnold that "more and more, aa the years roll on, mankind will discover that we have to turn to Poetry to interpret life for us ; to console us, and to sustain us." And it is noteworthy that whilst Browning wrote in the light of modern science,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 sidor
...in Mr. Arnold's opinion, is in future to be a substitute for religion. " More and more," he says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of... | |
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